Oliver Cromwell

Author: Zaporojan Ioan-Catalin

Oliver Cromwell was borned on the 25th of April 1599, dying on
the 3rd of September 1658, was a Puritan, who opposed Charles
I, the King, in the Long Parliament, that first met in 1640.
During the Civil War he fought for Parliament. He thought that
Parliamentary leaders didn’t do enough to try to defeat Charles
I.

Oliver Cromwell

Cromwell became the leader of England in 1649 by leading the New

Model Army. This included opponents that held different opinions
about the type and degree of changes they wanted but they all agreed
Charles I of England that Charles needed to change policies or go.
At the end of the first Civil War in 1646,
Cromwell and the Army tried to negotiate
peace with Charles I. In 1648 Charles I
betrayed them starting the Second Civil
War and they resolved to 'bring him to
account'. Cromwell was one of those who
tried Charles in 1649 and sentenced him to
death.
First English Civil War

Parliament asked Cromwell to crush the

remaining royalist supporters of the king,
who continued to rebel, against the authority
of Parliament. He did this brutally, especially
in Ireland and in particular at the siege of
Drogheda in 1649.
 The Protectorate
When Cromwell returned to Parliament, he
found the 'Rump', the last few
remaining members, of the Long Parliament
that was still sitting. He found that he could not
agree with them about how to rule the
Commonwealth as to do so without a king was
an entirely new and untested concept. To solve
this problem, the army as the most powerful
group took control and declared Cromwell
Lord Protector. The title was to suggest he was
not a king but in reality he ruled as such.

The founding of the Protectorate The English Protectorate

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